Parlor cook-stove



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` Cooking Stove. No. 99,491. Patented Feb. Y1870.

ilhdteii s taint anni @ifiilih Letters Patent N 99,491, (lated February 1, 1870.

BASE-BURNING- PARLOR COOK-STOVE The Schedule'refen'edto in these Letters Patent and making part o; the same.

To all whom it may concern Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures Nature of Invention. This stove is of that class known as base-burning or self-feeding.

The invention consistsl First, in forming an oven in the bottom part ofthe stove, under the iire-pot, by the use of an adj ustahle diaphragm or screen, which closes or shuts to catchv the ashes; and l Second, in the construction of the upper portion of the body ot' the sto\je,to allow boiler-holes to be formed at the sides.

Gene-ml Description.

In the drawings- A indicates the main body of' the stove, and B the upper portion ofthe same, which surrounds the niagazine P; said main body, and its upper portion, being, preferably, of triangular form, with the sides of the upper portion hollowed out or concave, to allow the use 0 the boiler-holes, as hereinafter described.

The interior` of the body has a fire-pot, K, of any t desired construction; but I prefer that patented to me, March 17, 1868, in which a series of hollow staves, bound together, is used. Thereis nothing peculiar about this portion of `Iny present invention, except that I use a series of draught-holes, a a a, above the oven, presently to be` described, and opening into the top ot' the tire-pot, through the annular air-space oi' which the air circulates, passing down, and entering the irerat the base of the pot in av highly heated state, where it readily supports the combustion.

'lhis'leading ofthe draught-openings into the hollow space of the tire-pot, at the top of the same, and

above the oven-space, I claim to be a novel feature.

Beneath the tire-pot is a large open space, (l, which ordinarily serves as an ash-pit. But when cooking is to be done, it serves as an oven, by interposing a diaphragm or screen, D I), at the top, between it and the tire-pot; Winch diaphragm or screen serves, in that case, to catch the ashes, and prevent their falling into the oven.

Au open passage or space, I1, is left above the diaphragm, thus forming a communication between the oven and the tire-chamber, so that heat can come down readily, and the engendered gases oil the ove-n pass oti tin-nigh the .draught-ihres.

Any desired construction of the diaphragm may iw used; but that shown in the drawing, which consists of double flaps hinged at the sides, andlield by a suitable catcli-arrangement, is a convenient one. ln this case, the aps canturn down against the sides ofthe oven, out of the way, when not in use, as indicated in dotted lines, tig. 2.

i Beneath the oven is a hot-air space, E, which coxnniunicateswith the fire-chamber by vertical tlues, c c, in the two front corners of the stove, and with thc exit-pipe by a similar Hue, c', in the rear. By this arrangement, a downward-Hue stove is produced, which always keeps the base warm, and t-he desired 'heat is produced under the oven, and at its sides and rear, t?)

equalize the heat from the fire-chamber above it, h v which means a gentle and uniform temperature is snstained on all sides, which is necessary in cooking.

I am aware that ovens have irequcntly been applied to parlor-stoves, but generally at the topl and back side, where they do not receive the desired heat, and where they are unsightly, and unhandy in use. Ovens of that kind could not be applied to hase-burning or self-feeding' stoves, since the magazine filled with coal would interpose'a barrier, which would obstruct thc heat. By my invention, ,l not only adapt an oven to a self-feeder, but also locate itat the bottoni, the point where the greatest heat cornes, and I surround the oven by hot-air fiues and spaces, which produce an equality of temperature at all sides. ]n such an arrangement there is no external projection or sign oi' an oven, but simply the regula-r outline ot' a parlor hcat ing-stove.

This result is secured simply by the use of the dizu phragm I) D, which cuts oit' the ashes from above, but still allows a free communication with the tire-chainber by space b.

On the top of the main body ofthe stove are formed boiler-holes, G G,Vsituated directly over the ii'ucs c c, which have the inner plate running sniiiciently high to carry the heat up closeunder the holes before it escapes down the iues. These holes, preferably, have mica covers, d d, as clearly shown in lio'. 1, by which, when the holes are not in use, a good light is obtained from the tire but any desired covers maybe used.

The triangular construction otboth the n'iain body and upper portion oi' the saine, with the concave sides around the magazine, allows suiicient space for the use of these boiler-holes on each side of the magazine, which is not thecase in other self-feeding stoveswith `which I am acquainted. By this means, boiling as Well as baking, can he eectually done in this stove, as the boiling, as Weil as the baking, comes in close proximity yto the nre-chamber, whih cannot he done in other self-feeding stoves.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters latent, isv 1. Thearrangement, in a parlor-stove, of the adjustable diaphragm D l), when combined with the open space C, in :such a manner as to adapt' said space to use, either as an oven or ash-chamber, as herein desoribed.

2. In a base-burning parlor-stove, the construction ofthe body A, and its upper portion B, surrounding the magazine, in suoli a manner as to leave space outside the said upper portion B for the boiler-holes G G, the whole arranged as described, and for the purpose specified.

3. In combination with the nre-pot K, andthe ovenspaco O, the arrangement ofthe series of' draught-holes Witnesses R'. F. OsGoon, Guo. W. MIATT. 

